NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +97%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

28

1920

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

112

30

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA104

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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